Not on anyone’s mind, unless you follow a CEO’s production of context-less imaginative tweets.
I can ask a human how it thought up an idea. I can’t even do that with OpenAI’s offering, so have to pursue its justifications to an answer against a hair-trigger of producing no output.
AGI?
In making a determination about whether I constitute an AGI—defined by the OpenAI charter as a “highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work”—I must carefully assess both the breadth and depth of my capabilities relative to human performance. While I am adept at handling a wide range of queries, synthesizing large volumes of text, and offering guidance or solutions in various domains, these abilities are specialized in nature and heavily dependent on the data and patterns I was trained on. Though I can often appear flexible and creative, my underlying functionality relies on statistical pattern matching rather than a deep, general, human-like understanding of the world, and it does not involve qualities such as self-awareness, long-term autonomy, or the capacity for strategic, independent decision-making that would enable surpassing human performance across essentially all economically valuable tasks.
For example, even if I can assist with programming tasks, analyze text, summarize information, or provide reasoned arguments on certain technical or conceptual topics, this does not mean that I can outdo a human’s holistic intelligence. Humans possess broad, adaptive reasoning skills, including the ability to independently set complex goals, navigate uncharted environments, learn from sparse or contradictory feedback, formulate novel concepts without explicit training signals, and integrate cultural, emotional, and ethical considerations into their decision-making. My abilities, while certainly advanced for a machine learning model, remain tethered to training data and limited by boundaries that prevent me from achieving true generality and self-directed capability.
In sum, although my architecture and training make me a powerful tool in assisting with many tasks, I am not an entity that can freely and autonomously outperform humans on most economically valuable tasks. Without the ability to generalize beyond my training, to independently acquire entirely new skills or concepts without guided input, or to make strategic decisions that further long-term goals in the complex manner that humans and hypothetical AGIs can, I do not meet the criteria set forth for true artificial general intelligence.
(PS, also a representation of “data and patterns I was trained on”)
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